ch. xviii] Hans Egede and Danish Greenland 163 
retirement with his daughters on the island of Falster, 
where he died, in his 73rd year, on the 5th November, 
I758 1 . 
The Danish Government took both the Greenland 
Mission and the trade under royal protection. For it 
began to be understood that there was wealth in the 
products of Greenland, in the whalebone and oil, the 
skins of seals, deer, and foxes, the walrus and narwhal 
ivory, and the eider-down. There were to be royal 
factors and storehouses, side by side with missionaries 
and churches. Stations were to be formed at intervals 
along the coast, to be visited annually by ships which 
were to receive the products collected by the factors 
during the year. The larger stations consisted of the 
factor's house, storehouse, and smithy, the mission house 
and church, and the native huts. 
The most southern station, Frederikshaab, was formed 
in 1742 by Jacob Severin, a merchant of Jutland. About 
40 miles to the north of this station is the famous Bis 
blink, a great ice mass whose " glance ** or " blink " in 
the sky is seen for many leagues out at sea. It forms 
a vast ice bridge over the fjord, two leagues across and 
eight leagues long and the ebb tides take quantities of 
ice out to sea, under the bridge. Further north is the 
bay which Hans Egede called Fischer's Fjord, in lat. 
63 0 N. Here a station was formed in 1754, and, four 
years later, on the same island, the Moravians settled 
their second mission, which they called Lichtenfels. 
These were the only stations south of Godthaab in the 
early days. 
To the north, the station of Sukkertoppen was founded 
in 1755, and in 1759 Holsteinborg was established, and 
named after Count Holstein, President of the Missions 
College. The first factor was Nils Egede, younger son 
of the great missionary. Holsteinborg is well placed in 
an excellent harbour with the numerous Knight Islands 
in the offing. Fifty miles further north is the station of 
Egedesminde which was founded by Nils Egede in 
1759, who gave it that name in memory of his father. 
In Disco Bay a settlement was formed by order of Jacob 
1 Egede was the author of two books, one on the history of the 
Greenland Mission, the other a description of Greenland. 
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